Outside the Beltway

Turning young voters into Young Republicans isn’t going to be an easy thing for the GOP to pull off.

Republicans are starting to talk about immigration reform, but do they really mean it?

The Democratic Party appears to have a lock on a substantial part of the Electoral College. That poses a problem for Republicans.

If the Romney campaign looked shocked on Election Night, that’s because they didn’t believe the polls either.

More griping about poor analysis.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

The impact of outside spending on the election turned out to be far less consequential than many had feared.

Without question, Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate in the 2012 campaign.

Tthere’s enough bad punditry going around that there’s no need to invent cases to expose.

The ink is barely dry on Barack Obama’s victory and some conservatives are already focusing blame on the Governor of New Jersey.

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

The 2012 Election should be a warning to the GOP that it needs to open itself up to minority groups, especially Latinos.

Why I supported Mitt Romney despite his constant flip-flopping, fibbing, and fecklessness.

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

There are still votes to be counted, and the Romney campaign has yet to concede, but the race is over and Barack Obama has been re-elected.

In a posting for New Atlanticist titled “Status Quo Election,” I note the near total absence of foreign affairs from a presidential campaign that’s mercifully coming to an end.

The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.

If we elected presidents by a national telephone survey using Gallup’s likely voter screen, Mitt Romney would be a happy man.

In a silly quadrennial tradition, the residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire voted at midnight. It was a tie.

The 2012 Election promises to be close in the Popular Voter, but President Obama still retains an Electoral College advantage.

The Romney campaign doesn’t seem too confident of its path to victory.

Republicans already seem to be blaming Hurricane Sandy in the event Mitt Romney loses.

Republicans are going to get trounced among Latino voters tomorrow, and they only have themselves to blame.

Could Romney win Ohio by ginning up Republican turnout and tamping down Democratic votes?

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

The analyst actually wants to understand and be correct far more than he or she wants their preferences to prevail in the analysis

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

A mostly positive, but mixed, jobs report drops five days before Election Day

Making note of some of the predictions and such as we approach November 6th.